We currently support several systems running Oracle 8 that are upgrading to 9i. From a support perspective, can someone help me identify any key differences that might need special attention the my Oracle 8 experience does not cover? Thank you.

I was out of the Oracle world for three years (using 7.4?), and now knee deep in alligators with little time to review market offerings. I am using Oracle Enterprise Manager for 9i and very happy with it. An Embarcardero vendor has contacted me a couple of times, but I've had little time to...

We have a table which already has a primary key. We want to make this have a composite primary key with another column. Is there any other way to do this without dropping the primary key and recreating a composite PK. Thanks in advance.

We have a table with 70 columns and everyday we move data from thsi table to its history table which is basically same in structure. The daily table has about 4 million records that is tranferred to the history table. To move data from this daily table to the hostory table we are using bulk collect...

HI, I need to create a data warehouse in Saudi Arabia, on Oracle 9.2.0. The database will store almost everything in English, but will need to store Arabic names in Arabic, and will need to handle both gregorian and hijri date formats and display them correctly. This same database may later need to...

In an Oracle 9.2.0.4 database I have a user with DBA as the default role. But I had to grant explicitly via "grant SELECT on ..." to this user to allow it to select from DBA_ROLE_PRIVS and DBA_USERS. Since the DBA role grants all system privileges WITH ADMIN OPTION, why is it necessary to grant...

I have spent most of my DBA life on HP/UX. I just recently installed an App on Win 2000 and was able to easily set up schema exports, but I can't get the full database export to work. I am running it as SYSTEM and made sure that SYSTEM has the DBA role as well as EXP_FULL_DATABASE. Has anyone else...

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